Ah, the first Wednesday of the summer. I'm having a hard time finding my summer groove so far, and haven't spent a whole lot of time sewing, but I have been going through this odd little belated spring cleaning spree. The biggest accomplishment I've made this last week is a big reorganization of my sewing space. I can now proudly say that I know exactly what fabrics I have and more importantly, where they all are!! I'm so glad that I spent some time doing this, it was totally worthwhile.

BEFORE

lots of leaning towers of fabric!

AFTER

no more piles!

nice drawers for all of my fat quarters, unsorted scraps, and selvages

sorted scraps on top of the bookcases

precuts right where I can see them!

I did wrap up two big projects late last week, my EZ Dresden Challenge quilt, Dresden Stairs, and my Zakka Sew Along project, the Orchard Path pouch. Giveaways are open through the end of the week on each of those blog posts, too, so if you haven't entered yet, hop on over!

In other sewing news, I've got a bunch of catching up to do now that I've got a nice, clean space again. Here's what I've got going on:

In the works:

Bee blocks for Kati - Kati is working on a really cool star sampler and since I'm in two bees with her, I'll be making two different star blocks for her. I think I may draft one myself and do a Florida star for the other. I really love the color scheme Kati's using for this quilt!

Bee block for Tiffany - Tiffany's asked for a Crown of Thorns block, and I had fun pulling some blue scraps together for this block. I got started with some half-square triangles for this block and I'm hoping to wrap this up to get this block in the mail next week.

Christmas in July project - I'm super excited about the Christmas in July festivities that are coming up next month. I'm still debating on what I'm going to do, but I am having fun finding some non-holiday fabrics that still give me that good old holiday feeling!

Bella Parade project - I've got a new tutorial to share with you all on Saturday, using four new Bella solids and some fun print coordinates that have been in my stash for a while. Still need to put the finishing touches on it, but it's almost ready.

Stalled at the moment:

Patchwork Wheel quilt

New munchkin quilt

Farmer's Wife quilt

What are you working on this week? Write it up and share it over at Lee's WiP Wednesday linky!

Oh that fabric!! I am in love and awe. And your Dresden Stairs is feeding my obsessive love of all chevron and/or zigzag patterned, thankyou!

PS - I am going to be super cheeky and casually inform you that there is Christmas in July Secret Santa swap happening over on my Blossom Heart blog *wink wink* I LOVE Christmas, so am totally up for twice the fun each year!

Love how nice and clean your sewing area looks! I am also in a belated "spring cleaning" mode and get sidetracked easily. Have not used those mini-bolts but am wondering how they would work with big pieces of fabric, like 3+ yards. Also, are they very expensive? I have a variety of cuts, like fat eights, fat quarters, so am thinking those would stay the way they are. Any help/tips in organizing my stash would help, thanks!

Hold the phone! You have to KNOW that your BEFORE pictures are better than what my AFTER pictures would EVER!!! look like. I"m amazed!! It's a perfect space! Working on bits and pieces of UFO's , thing I love to work on and things I don't love so much, but need to be done to "cleanse my sewing palatte!".

Wow....as a fairly newbie quilter I am in awe of your fabric 'stash' Can you please tell me...when you are buying precut fabrics that you don't have earmarked for a specific project...how much do you buy? a metre, two metres, more? I tend to buy fat quarters because I don't know how much to buy off the bolt. Thanks for sharing your pictures and your wisdom!

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